How the fragility of perpetrators harms us all. Pedophile fragility describes the triggered reaction and defensive maneuvers perpetrators of systemic pedophilia engage in when their role in harming children is brought to their awareness. Originally coined by Robin DiAngelo and popularized in her bestseller White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard…

How genital cutting culture harms survivors. When the trauma of circumcision is acknowledged, it is usually framed in terms of the initial pain the child experiences. Circumcision causes trauma. Studies have shown that this trauma alters brain development creates a lasting change in behavior. …

What an ancient Chinese scholar can teach us about modern politics. “If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes…

Social justice has been centered on adults. Why hasn’t there been a social justice movement for children? It’s odd when you think about it. If social justice is about protecting the vulnerable, the minority, and the oppressed, then there is no minority more vulnerable or oppressed than children. It’s also…

Understanding Children’s Justice. Systemic pedophilia describes the beliefs, culture, practices, language, institutions, and other social systems that allow children to be harmed. Systemic pedophilia includes the abuse, rape, and genital cutting of children, and all aspects of society that allow or contribute to these forms of abuse. - Children’s Justice …

Human rights are dead. Human rights are dead. We all know it, but no one wants to admit it. Rights like the right to travel, peacefully assemble, or decide what goes into your body are conditional on compliance with the medical overstate. …

Children’s Justice explores the treatment of children as a social justice issue. I have always been interested in Children’s Justice. I just didn’t have that name for it. The closest name I had was “children’s rights.” Children’s rights movements have often struggled to gain attention. At best, they have been…

No-evidence medicine is all around us: “There is no evidence of human-to-human transmission of coronavirus.” “There is no evidence masks work to prevent transmission.” “There is no evidence of airborne transmission of COVID-19.” “There is no evidence that early life trauma affects people later in life.” “There is no evidence…

What would you say if during the COVID-19 pandemic there was an organization messaging person after person on social media to tell them that there was no human-to-human transmission of coronavirus? What if this group was also telling people not to use interventions that worked, like masks, and encouraged interventions…